DSi photo sharing on Facebook starts today
- August 03, 2009 00:00 AM PST
Nintendo's Facebook photo-integration feature will be available after 5pm PT today, allowing DSi owners to snap pictures with either of the system's two cameras, then upload them directly to a Facebook profile.
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The DSi already lets you take pictures, so all that's changed is the addition of a Facebook icon. Tap it, and you'll beam the corresponding photo(s) to your Facebook profile. I'm not sure precisely where they land (I haven't test-driven it yet myself). They'd have to be either channeled through some a Facebook Connect bridge, or maybe they're dropped in a photo album established or named when you enter your Facebook account info on the DSi itself.
You'll be able to send un-fiddled pictures straightaway, as well as fiddled ones, i.e. those manipulated using the DSi's built-in interactive lenses.
Per NPD Group, Nintendo reports its DSi has sold more than 1.7 million units in the US alone. They're also quick to point out that the DSi features parental controls that let adults supervise the content their kids can access.
Good luck putting restrictions on what they can or can't photograph? Not that there's special cause for concern, given all the ways they can transmit similar information through alternative mediums. In fact, come to think of it, I wonder how long it'll be before we see a story about a child in untoward circumstances using her/his DSi to send photos that help get them out of said circumstances. Not because gizmos like mobile phones don't already have that capacity, but because in a tight spot, someone else may not expect the DSi to.
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- Aug 03 2009 at 01:27:56:PM PST
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would be great but i dont use facebook so hope everyone else who does enjoys this
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What happened to metting people face to face, and having a real social life then a virtual one?
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This is a wise move for Nintendo. Integrating their hand held with a web 2.0 platform will surely increase its marketability. However, I still don't feel that the console's touch screen has been fully utilized via its available titles.
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Thats all nice and all, but what about the people that don't use facebook and use myspace?? Xbox360 is soon to have facebook and now this?? where's the myspace love?
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mysapce is decidedly dead for some reason. i no, a few years ago people were like "OMG!!! SO.. ADDICTED.. TO.. MYSPACE!!!" and now they've left it.
i like ms better because it doesn't obsessively update me.
but still, the feature is neat, and doing it on a cpu can be painful.
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